Sentences with phrase «sleep researchers look»

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A team of researchers from the University of Colorado recently performed a meta - study where they looked at all of the available research about screen time and sleep.

When researchers looked at their brain activity during these times, they saw that one hemisphere of the brain had electrical patterns resembling nighttime sleep, whereas patterns from the other hemisphere indicated wakefulness.

«The animal comes inside the camp looking for a warm place to sleep beneath» — referring to human bodies in hammocks, says Etiam Pérez, a Cuban crocodile researcher and manager of the Zapata Swamp Captive Breeding Farm.

For years, Paul Shaw, PhD, a researcher at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has used what he learns in fruit flies to look for markers of sleep loss in humans.

The study by University of Florida and Research Triangle Park researchers is the first to look at sleep difficulty by smoking status in a large population - based, nationally representative sample.

A team of researchers recently combed through the literature looking for associations between mobile devices in the bedroom and poor sleep.

By looking at the artifacts of astronauts — from their dining utensils and sleeping bags to their religious icons and family photos — these researchers hope to gain new insights into how astronauts of different backgrounds interact with each other, and how they adapt to life in microgravity.

When the researchers looked at brain size, they found that for fighters who had increasing levels of tau over time, there was a 7 percent decline in the volume of their thalamus, which is located in the center of the brain and regulates sleep, consciousness, alertness, cognitive function and language while also sending sensory and movement signals to other portions of the brain.

When the researchers looked at the molecular details of the PER1 protein, they found that the mutated PER1 led to lower protein levels during the sleeping period, higher levels during the waking period, and a faster degradation of protein whenever it was produced by cells.

But even when the researchers look at the children who have only been diagnosed with ADHD, they see a big difference in the sleep patterns of the control group and the ADHD group.

Delta waves were first identified and described in the early 1900s after the invention of the electroencephalogram allowed researchers to look at brain activity during sleep.

The researchers also note the need to look more closely at how drugs that are known to prevent homeostatic scaling down, including benzodiazepines and other sedatives or sleep aids, interfere with learning and memory.

Northwestern University researchers looked at 96 adults, aged 18 to 50, who slept more than 6.5 hours a night.

Researchers looked at how a daytime nap impacts cardiovascular recovery after a stress test, and discovered that those individuals who slept for a minimum of 45 minutes in the daytime had lower average blood pressure following psychological stress than individuals who didn't sleep.

In a large analysis of the link between sleep and fat loss, researchers looked at 36 studies, including 635,000 people around the world, and found that adults who didn't get enough sleep were 50 percent more likely to be obese, and children who didn't get enough sleep were 90 percent more likely to be obese, compared with those who got more sleep.

The researchers looked at 40 obese individuals experiencing obstructive sleep apnea.

Surprisingly, the researchers did not find increased levels of Alzheimer's markers when they looked specifically at people with obstructive sleep apnea, a breathing disorder that's a major disruptor of sleep and a risk factor for several other chronic diseases.

In another study, published in July, researchers looked at 245 women in a six - month weight loss program and found that those who slept more than seven hours a night, and those who reported better quality sleep, were 33 percent more likely to succeed in their weight - loss efforts.

When the researchers looked at the brain patterns of the sleep groups, they found that the interrupted sleepers showed significantly less «slow - wave sleep» than the other two groups of sleepers that had slept continuously.

The researchers looked at four sleep problems: self - reported difficulty falling or staying asleep, frequent snoring, sleep duration of less than six hours, and either sleep apnea or rotating shift work.

After looking at data on nearly 300,000 adults, the researchers concluded that there's a sleep sweet spot — between seven to eight hours a night reduced the risk of stroke by more than 25 percent.

If you're looking for less conventional treatment options, you may be interested in a study published in 2006: Swiss researchers suggested that playing a didgeridoo, an Aboriginal instrument, improves (but doesn't cure) sleep apnea symptoms.

In addition to measuring the amount of time it took each partner to fall asleep, the researchers also looked at their total sleep time and the number of times they woke up during the night.

Dr Barrett says that one of the earliest sleep researchers, Michel Jouvet, found that although kitties lay quietly throughout their sleep, once they've entered into a state of deep sleep, they leap up, stalk, pounce, arch their backs and hiss — looking as if they're hunting mice in their dreams.

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